Corinth Object: L 2965
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   L 2965
Title:   ROMAN LAMP BRONEER TYPE XXVIII
Category Code:   L
Object Number:   2965
Old Number:   Temp. No. 0116
Description:   Lamp with low base ring, rounded body turning up to vertical, broad low sloping rim, concave disk framed by plastic ring, 4 fill holes in 4 arms of cross, solid lug handle smeared at mould seam.
Decoration:   Rim: herringbone; disk: monogram: cross with circles on arms, Rho to lt.; Handle: 2 grooves down back.
Material:   Fine brown clay with rare fine white inclusions, some voids.
Munsell Color:   10YR 5/3
Condition:   Complete profile. single frgt., complete profile except for center of bottom, preserving back half of lamp and handle; some blackening of surface inside and on disk, poss. from context.
Manufacture:   MM
Dimensions Actual:   H00.043 (max) H00.030 (rim)
Dimensions Preserved:   L00.058
Dimensions Restored:   D00.062
Period:   Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:   Late Roman
Area:   Asklepieion
Context:   NB113 P51
Site:   Asklepeion
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Asklepieion
Image: bw 1999 041 26
Basket: NB113 P51
Notebook Page: NB 113, spread 32 (pp. 50 - 51)